Halloween at SMART START is a time filled with dress up, trick-or-treating, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, decorations, arts and crafts, stories, games, songs and more!
SMART START's bookshelf featured an assortment of books about spiders, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns and bats. We revisited a favorite titled, Go Away Big Green Monster. To coincide with the story, SMART START puppeteers put on a show using the green monster puppet. Each put on and removed their Velcro features while quoting lines from the book.
Our Halloween project corresponded with the book, Go away Big Green Monster. The students were eager to create a big green monster of their very own! They painted a paper plate green, glued google eyes, used pipe cleaners for purple scraggly hair, placed on teeth stickers and cut and glued felt bluish greenish noses and red mouths. A job well done, SMART START artists!
Halloween friends were delighted to play the "Spider Letter Game" They passed around a bag containing foam spiders each labeled with a capital letter. We used this activity to focus on letter sounds and words that begin with the corresponding letter. Our young learners sounded out different Halloween themed words such as cat, bat and rat. Some of the older children noticed that these words rhymed. Incidental learning at its finest!
In the spirit of Halloween, our preschoolers enjoyed dressing up in costumes from our dramatic play area. SMART START actors engaged in pretend play as a pirate, cowgirl, princess, cat, bumblebee, knight and more. The classroom was filled with sounds mimicking each of the attire worn..."Yee-haw", "Rawwwr", "Arghhh Matey", "Meow"and "Buzzzzz." We admired the children's imaginations at work and innocence at play.
🎃 HALLOWEEN PARTY FUN 🎃
SMART START friends were thrilled to celebrate Halloween with a party here at school . Each wore unique and adorable costumes from home. Pilot, our class pet, wore his dinosaur costume along with Barny the Barn Owl dressed as a rabbit! To showcase costumes, we had an official musical parade!
Our talented artists decorated their own small goody bag for trick-or-treating at school. They used markers, bonkers, stickers, purple glue and Halloween sparkles. The children were excited to use something they created!
Trick-or-treating was a favorite! Our costumed group filled their decorated bags with goodies from each of the classrooms, as well as the outdoor play structure and chicken coop. Afterwards, they enjoyed some yummy treats!
Fun and games included: pin the spider on the web, musical chairs to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and a special Halloween rendition of "Duck, Duck, Goose".... "Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Jack-O-Lantern!"
Click below to see highlights from our Halloween festivities!
Thank you for allowing your child(ren) to participate in the Halloween festivities here at SMART START!
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